The Passion of Javier

Peru, 70s. Javier Heraud, a literature student, passionate and nonconformist, confronts his father who opposes to his vocation as a poet.The problems worsens when Javier publishes his first poem, El Río, and is invited to a youth encounter in the Soviet Union, Javier is dazzled. He later travels to Paris where he met Mario Vargas Llosa, and they exchange ideas about the Cuban Revolution, where he participated in a guerrilla movement in fights for a change in Peru. (Guadalajara International Film Festival)